Martin Bleisteiner is an editor and academic translator based in Berlin Jan-Peer Hartmann is a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Aitiologies’ at the Freie Universität Berlin Andrew James Johnston is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin

• Introduction: Medieval disruptions of time – Martin Bleisteiner, Jan-Peer Hartmann and Andrew James JohnstonPart I: Materiality in motion1 How to do things with things: Material objects in the multicultural Mediterranean – Sharon Kinoshita2 Suspenseful gifts: Gemstones as mediators in medieval German travel narratives – Falk Quenstedt3 Playing with linear time – Valerie AllenPart II: Ephemeral materialities4 A strange object of aesthetic desire: Chaucer’s theatre as cinema – Andrew James Johnston5 Vitreous temporalities – Stephanie Trigg6 Cosmopolitical Shakespeares (On Macbeth’s bubbles) – Julian YatesPart III: Material (after)lives7 The multiple lives of the Ruthwell Monument – Jan-Peer Hartmann8 The movements of the Franks Casket – Joshua Davies9 Meta-Poetic matter in John Lydgate’s Troy Book – Martin Bleisteiner and Wolfram Keller10 Marco Polo’s boqtaq: A medieval object and its afterlives – Kim M. PhillipsIndex